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It's not a mystery that what most people believe about a certain topic isn't necessarily true and about Dark Legends there're a lot of commonplaces that are regarded as "pure gold".
I'd like to have a list of them to help me and anyone else who is interested in Actual and/or Alternate History. I hope you'll help me with your ideas 'cause I know I'm not perfect and I may be victim of some of this Legends too.
I'll start with the most famous ones:
- Christianity caused the end of Rome.
- The Vikings were uncivilized savages.
- The Mongols were uncivilized savages.
- The Renaissance started only after (and because) Costantinople was conquered in 1453.
- The Inquisition burned millions (According to someone even trillions!) of innocent witches/heretics.
- Nobody before Columbus knew there was anything on the other side of the Atlantic.
- Spanish Dark Legend (The one that gave me inspiration.):
- - Military:
- - - Spanish army was the worst in Europe in the XV, XVI and XVII centuries.
- - - Spanish navy was the worst in Europe in the XV, XVI and XVII centuries.
- - Economy:
- - - There were no banks in Spain before 1700.
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